Ten Questions for Marie-Helene Bertino

“Intuition is enough.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Exit Zero
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“Intuition is enough.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Exit Zero
“If a story gathers force by what it accrues, this kind of ending is a letting go.” —Corinna Vallianatos, author of Origin Stories
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“A terrible draft of a story is a gift, because now the real work can begin.” —Jonathan Escoffery, author of If I Survive You
The editor of The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners sees translation as a way of putting a language back in movement by allowing the currents of different languages to mix and blend.
The author of The Devoted considers the strengths of the long short story.
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